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One of my favorite 3.7 seconds of television ever, because for Big Bro and me, this was our "instructions on a packet of toothpicks" moment.

One of my fond memories during the (second) big hurricane over a decade ago:

(And this is from a thread specifically about lamenting the lack of access modern kids have to, y'know, stuff they can DO without getting in trouble.)

(Libraries rock.) 🤘

"Sneeze II: The Hanky Cometh"

("Sneeze III: Gesundheit")

@keithpille.bsky.social mind if I DM you for some music equipment questions…?

I'm not even a huge fan of the "kitchen sink" aesthetic but at this point I'd *much* rather see a movie version of some REALLY out there Fantastic fantasy type stuff where they don't play by any elfy-swordy-wizardy rules and you've got people wandering around with, like, traffic lights for heads.

Joanne beat you to it.

🤔

Oh, you meant *physically*.

Yes, this includes every post about how absurdly stupid AI hype is.

I know. I've programmed (very smale-scale) AI. I understand the tech under the hood. It is exactly as overhyped and stupid as you all keep saying. Every new instance of it being stupid and overhyped is clear.

I'm just tired, man.

I don't think any of you should stop but there's only so many times I can read posts and links and GIFs and videos that confirm all the shit I already know/agree with anyway so I'm gonna have to change up my feed to like all puppies and bird photos and I dunno like maybe video games I'll never play.

"AI Trained to ID AI Slip Develops Self-Loathing Before Self-Awareness" (It's a satire headline I came up with a few months ago for a job I didn't get.)

Zero doubt.

And in case you think I'm talking out of my ass here: I grew up with kids like these, and if I hadn't been obsessed with "always being one of the Good Guys" I might've been enough of an asshole to BE one.

And also:

Pictured: two dipshits who have precisely ZERO clue about the world around them, the people in it, or anything beyond their narrow tech domain, and if they get their billions and bail out, they'll never, ever need to have a clue about any of it. But it probably says "genius" on their business cards.

I don't think any of you should stop but there's only so many times I can read posts and links and GIFs and videos that confirm all the shit I already know/agree with anyway so I'm gonna have to change up my feed to like all puppies and bird photos and I dunno like maybe video games I'll never play.

That's not a die.

That's a died and came back wrong.

(And phenomenally well done, by the way.)

So Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate me.

Me in a a publicity shot for the award-winning NY Fringe Festival premiere of "Jump Man - A Mario Musical" (2014) where I played Mario. I, y'know, look like goddamn Mario. It was an excellent show, and I was phenomenal in it.

It's-a Mario Day! (MAR10, for the uninitiated.)

That's-a me!

(In an award-winning NY Fringe Festival premiere 12 years ago.) 😉

I miss jacket weather so much.

How am I not getting jacket weather in *NYC*? It goes from coats and hats to shorts, then right back again. (Sometimes with a brief stop at raincoats and galoshes. In either direction.)

How I flirt…

(More of a problem than this being how I flirt is that it's worked so well that my social graces are…not the best.) 🥴

JFC. 🫩

Songs from the Musical "Jump Man", by Jump Man Original Cast 11 track album

You *could* listen to the cast album on Spotify (🤮), but you could also just download it on Bandcamp!

(It was a damn good show.)

Songs from the Musical "Jump Man", by Jump Man Original Cast 11 track album

You *could* listen to the cast album on Spotify (🤮), but you could also just download it on Bandcamp!

(It was a damn good show.)

So Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate me.

Me in a a publicity shot for the award-winning NY Fringe Festival premiere of "Jump Man - A Mario Musical" (2014) where I played Mario. I, y'know, look like goddamn Mario. It was an excellent show, and I was phenomenal in it.

It's-a Mario Day! (MAR10, for the uninitiated.)

That's-a me!

(In an award-winning NY Fringe Festival premiere 12 years ago.) 😉

Homophones are like SEW hard ewe guise.

Probably easy enough to draw a distinction between owning a "home," which is, y'know, a goddamn HOME that you LIVE in, and owning a bunch of "real estate," which is, y'know, someone ELSE'S home that you gouge them for.

So: beyond the typical Atlantic editor's basic skill set.

Landlord ≠ homeowner.

Hell, yes.

It conjured up a VERY specific memory for me. (Even goofier: the other bad guy was a male transvestite, but played by a woman, except during the scene where he kills his sister, played by the same actress, so that's where I played him, and we did NOT have similar bodies at all.) 😁

TL;DR: if you want to pull this trick, all your buddies really do need to be about the same height and build as you and be good at mimicking your movements.

I…think this was supposed to be like "Which one am I?! Ha!" but it just reminded me of when I played one of the bad guys in a HS show but also "stunt doubled" a totally different bad guy and because of my height and build that just confused everybody 'cause they knew damn well it was me in the mask.

Guy in a show I did resented that I got to improvise all the time and he didn't ('cause I'm…GOOD at it?). Tried to change some of his lines—accidentally revealed that he didn't understand them.

"Who screws up Disney? The guy with the thumbs!"

(Was supposed to be a "Who has two thumbs and…" bit.)

Petition for a Short Wolverine YouTube video by semperbufo

Also also: I'd be a pretty fucking awesome Wolverine, and I'd even be closer to the correct height. 😝

(Though that wouldn't be my preference if I were asked which X-Man I'd like to play.)